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So i've been looking for new motherboard models and it's been pretty hard to find anything, H81 gone, H97 gone, TB85 gone (yes there are some of these here and there, overpriced AF tho), so what are you guys buying nowdays?

I'm planning on making a new purchase but i haven't seen any Intel/AMD socket mobo with 5 PCIE 1x.   ??? BTCBTCBTCBTC

I can recommend AMD socket because it has better performance with graphics and it really compatible with any video card which is recommended for the chipset. AMD motherboard is compatible with any with intel or amd graphics videocard like nvidia or ati chipset, it helps your processor runs smoothly for grahics and even data loading of your pc its has an awesome performance.

any mobo with 6-8 GPU's suppporing?

Well,  for Intel platform you can try ASUS X99-E WS (not so cheap) and also ASRock X99 OC Formula, ASRock Fatal1ty X99 Professional..

Second hand MSI  Z97 Gaming 5 or 7 are a good choice, 7 PCIe ;)

The question is if it supports to boot with 7 gpus..
I have a EVGA X99 FTWK it has 5x PCIe 3.0 8x support and also a PCIe 2.0 2x slot but I can't get it to work with a 6th card yet..someone told me about a bios trick I will test it later.

I'd go with the Asus H81M Plus. Its got only 4 PCI-E slots but is very cheap and the ratios building rigs with 4 GPUs are much better.
Cheap CPU, 2 cheap PSUs, 4 RX480 Nitro 4GB GPUs.

Don't forget the new AMD CPU comes out Zen line it should help with Ggpu mining 

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/zen-cpu?utm_campaign=www.amd.com_zen&utm_medium=redirect&utm_source=301&gclid=Cj0KEQjwhvbABRDOp4rahNjh-tMBEiQA0QgTGu_R_NBQ1STyfPRP8mnFAynZy1- DO NOT POST SESC LINKS nf73lUaAosa8P8HAQ#


I think it's there first one at any thing lower then 32 mn in while beside the APU that's at 28 i think. if it does what they say CPU miners will love it .

Have somebody problem with MSI Z170A Krait Gaming 3x. Work only 3 cards of 6.

The Z170 boards are not too good for mining.. max 4 cards.. they have memory lane limitations.

you can buy Asrock FM2A88X PRO3+ mobo is a great one i just got five of this mobo with amd a4 6300 dual core cpus

I am allready buy this motherboard , and now I dont understand what I can to do with my problem.

Here's a good Youtube vid about the best mining motherboards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS44TmuKUQE

And here's one about running 7 GPU cards on a single motherboard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWVyutw3hZk

First for AMD but not first period - Intel Skylark series is 14 or 16 nm.

 I also don't see the new AMD CPUs helping on GPU mining at all, though they might get competative with recent Intel CPUs on CPU mining.

 :'( Bed day for me , my Z170 make me same problem

so what are the best new mobos coming out?

I would recommend a Biostar TB85 with 1 PCI-Ex16 + 5 PCI-Ex1 (6SATA onboard) but it's very rare.

Intel is ending production soon of the 1150 socket CPUs with current 5 week lead times for any new production of the Celeron Chips.  Production should end in the front end of the first quarter  2017 and mining motherboards on the 1150 socket shortly there after.

Current channel info says Asrock will be launching an 1151 mining motherboard soon to replace the H97 Anniversary and the Probtc motherboards for mining.  In the mean time we are in a bit of a draught with motherboards.  I can still get bulk quantities the pro BTC produced with a proper sized order and Celerons.   

In my rig work 4X RX 480, in this motherboard. In the near future I will try to 5 or more. But most likely will need a PCIE switch.

2 cheap psu's? You could get a nice 800-850w for the whole system.

here is a very good board


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N2V0AHI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?

will do five tested most likely do six .  I don't test past five

I have a i5 7500t psu and I am mining it doing eth and decred

you can use an in g4400t in it  1 stick of ddr4 ram

You run 6 cards on it well?

Its only good for 5 GPU not 6.

I don't get the point of purchasing a MB with less than 6 slots tbh...it's not the best way to optimize costs.

atm there is MSI z170 with 7 gpu and also 8 gpu with (m2 to pcie), but i read need bios custum mod not official release to run 8.
and asus z270 A with 7 gpu and also 8 gpu with (m2 to pcie) i don't know if need some mod to enable it, but i dind't read anything about it, maybe not require update.

Hey, when you come out of those 16x slots with a powered usb 1x riser, there's no issues? Or do you use the ribbon flex 16x to 16x? I have heard a bunch of stuff from people about the 1x not working in the 16x slot on the MSI gaming board.



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all this mobos are already cancelled

There is plenty of mobos out there , i personally like the gigabyte ,i am using a no. Of gigabyte ultra durable and it works fine for months now , also i don't like using raisers it only generates problems , i would like to set my cards directly on the mobo so i get that mobos with minimum 4x 16xpcie with good psu and forget about it.

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B250-GAMING-M3.html#productSpecification-section

i think this is a good mobo for mining

Is there a specific model of the gigabyte ultra durable that you reccomend? I'm looking at the gigabyte webpage and there are over 300 model variations of the ultra durable...lol. I'm planning a low budget noob rig and I'm thinking I should settle with 4 16pcie instead of what everybody else seems to recommend, which is 6 or 7 slots.

They work with 7 GPUs just not all of them. I have an MSI Z170A Gaming m5 with 7x470.

I've got a few Z270-A Pros, I'm happy with em, 6 GPU native, 8 with splitter

i tried a splitter before never could get it tonwork all the cards power and a blue light comes on on the spitter
but the box just constatly reeboots, do you have the plug in into a specifc slot? I connected the splitters power as well using a 4 pin what specific board you have it working on?

Guys, I'm just about to pull the trigger on the parts to build two 7-GPU rigs. Was going for the MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon mobos, please tell me they will actually support 7 GPUs... Reading this thread got me scared!

Best Boards of 2017 IMO are:

H270-P and Z270-P by ASUS

and Biostar TB250 and TB350.

TB350 being based on AM4, goes well with AM4 X4 950
TB250 being intel, goes well with G3900 (since its cheaper than the kaby lake counter and you can run win 7 or 8 on the skylake G3900)

TB250 Unboxing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-nzCHtRE98

TB350 Unboxing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYCtbZRXDAA

TB250 Build
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlxxzax7MgY

Hello!
Could you tell me how you start up 6 GPUs on MSI Z270-A Pro? I can start only 4 cards.
What version of BIOS and performances do you use? Thanks it all.

Sorry for interrupting but how do you use GPUs with PCIe x1 slots? Do you use riser or something?

yes risers. generally the usb kind like this.

https://www.amazon.com/Powered-Extender-Litecoin-Bitcoin-Mining/dp/B00HZ0M9F2

note i am not endorsing this particular one, there are lots of them with varying quality. you can get some high quality ones from some members here.

just got MSI Z170A- GAMING M7 will see how it will perform and if it will take 6+ vids

Hallo guys, sorry my newbie i want to ask, i have a plan for mining ethereum using gpu (rx480), i ask how many gpu do i need to get 0.5 eth in one day? thank you.

At the current rate you'd need 530 mhs to get that, so about 18-21 GPUs depending on the hashrate you get, the difficulty is increasing though!

I'm using an ASRock Z97 Extreme4 with 6 pcie lanes because I had it lying around and I don't seem to be having any problems with it. It has an M.2 port also so it might be able to do 7 but i'm not sure, I never tried it.

Are you running EthOS or Windows?

anyone had any experience with these h270 artic motherboards? i have 3 units, all 3 will only see 4 cards inside windows and ethos, am i missing something in setting these boards up correctly?

Hello OP.
you can find the answer here.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1912766.0
This question is already answered here. Feel free to ask any other question.
Suggestion- you can also purchase ASIC miner to increase your profit.

thank mate, had a flick through that thread and youtube videos,
none relate directly to the h270,
the z270 boards work fine

i have enabled the 4d decoding, played with the peg settings etc
i am guessing there is a trick or mod somewhere that needs to be done on the h270 artic board to get these other 2 cards lighting up

cheers

is the  Biostar amd  am 4 MB on sell yet anyplace in the US for mining, i want one ........I know deep in the mines said they may have some this week, i think to morrow ....but 150 bucks plus shipping for a 80 dollar board... I'll keep watching ....

What cards/os/system are you running ? I have the exact same motherboard and it refuses to work with more than 4 gpus.

deep in the mines has them now

BIOSTAR TB350-BTC AMD Ryzen CPU B350 ATX Motherboards ETH ZCASH ZEC NEW USA

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BIOSTAR-TB350-BTC-AMD-Ryzen-CPU-B350-ATX-Motherboards-ETH-ZCASH-ZEC-NEW-USA-/112425491827?hash=item1a2d14dd73:g:dysAAOSwlndZLir0

As much as i don't want to i may buy one any way form them ....

I'm using the z270a prime with 8 GPU support, 7 straight from pcie slots.

i ahave asrock fataly h270 performance, but i cannot get to work more then one GPU. only 16x gpu with monitor is working.
i updated bios, made some changes and set ups...nothing help to get started.

any ideao how to get it working?

thx

Hello;

What is your favorite mobo's for 8 gpu's ? Which should i buy one?

Thanks

I have 4 rigs with Z270-P and it never caused any problems.
It is also well-documented and there are lot of guides how-to at Youtube

Thanks for your support.

bs. Using Z170a SLI pro and 6 out 6 cards working.

My choice forever Gigabyte 970 ds3p with am3+ socket, cheap, easy to find CPU(aliexpress 5$ athlon II) cheaper DDR3 ram and works fine with 5GPU. My rings use that motherboard, uptime few weeks. Recommend.

For mining suitable even older motherboard. I built my first rig two AM 3 motherboards. Each allows you to connect 4 GPU. All the equipment cost me $ 100. Additionally bought a power supply for 8 GPU + GPU. Only one H81 worth as much as how much I spent on all the equipment. To connect to it only 6 of the GPU.

Got 2 Asus prime Z270 A running for weeks, no probs, no need for custom bios, just usual settings, 4G decode and pcie gen 2 if I remember exactly. Using them with 8 gpu each, 7 pcie + 1 M2.
No errors, no hassle

i am looking for minable motherboards with remotely manageable features outside the O/S, like servers. Does anyone try it yet?

Not yet, but am very interesting.

About topic, Im using now Asus Mining Eypert MB. It cost me like 180 USD in EU and working great. Its for 19 PCIe slots and absolutely loving graphical interface after boot, which showing which card is good/bad and also BIOS. Im using Ubuntu on it.

any news on getting the ASUS B250mining expert running more than 8 VEGA 64's at stable peak performance ie 43.7MH/s?(which is what i achieved on all 8  :D 45.5 also possible)

i know ASUS has promised a driver update to do so 4th qrt 2017

when i add a 9th VEGA, 2 cards run at almost half speed (buss conflict), is there any solution aside from the awaited driver update?

thnx

wow never seen it, does it out-of-band? Based on your answer it looks like it is not. There are some individual modules on ebay for this through IPMI but nothing clear yet. Without it, you are at the mercy of BIOS during reboot when remove accessing it.

Asus Z270-A, GigaByte H110 D3A

Asus B250 Mining expert if you want to use more than  7 GPU

Driver update is live, use 17.04 or 17.11. Latest 2 of them works. You just need to select in AMD settings Gaming/Global settings/Compute, instead of Graphics on each of the AMD cards. I already use 12-13 AMD's on Win 10

How's the biostar tb250 btc pro?

I've been using the old tb85 and very stable, no problem, so considering staying with biostar.

Can't speak to the Pro, but I had to RMA the 6-slot version; constant PCIe Bus errors reported by Windows (first/only time I've ever seen that). Hopefully the replacement will fare better, but I also heard similar horror stories when asking about it elsewhere.

hi guys, I have used he z270 sli from MSI and as long as I put 2 gpu directly into x16 slot it mines OK, however as soon as I use the pcie extender, miner reports error. Did anyone have this problem?

Currently I have a mix of directly 2x plugged in GPU and  1x plugged through extender. The miner will report error on the 3rd connected through extender and mines only with 2 gpu-s connected direclty to x16 slot.

I used mintcell extender.

Did anyone encountered this problem and solved on their own?
Thanks!

 Probably won't happen, due to driver limits, unless AMD updates their "blockchain" driver to support more than 8 cards under Win 10 - or IF they ever get around to releasing a WORKING driver for Vega under LINUX.

 Also, Vega is a lot better off on Monero than on ETH - it's BEAT badly on a hash/$ basis by the RX 470/480/570/580 cards at recent pricing, even if you CAN find a Vega somewhere at something close to MSRP.

 28+ Mhash for UNDER $250 (and sometimes getting down close to $200) > 45 Mhash for $450 at MSRP and WAY MORE at current pricing when you can find a Vega at all.

Do you guys read previous posts??

AMD drivers are updated since 17.11.1 release. I currently run 17.11.4 with 12 AMD GPU on Biostar TB250-BTC Pro using Windows 10. You just need to select in AMD settings Gaming/Global settings/GPU workload/Compute, instead of Graphics on each of the AMD cards

Very good until now, stable and easy to setup. Also good placement of pci-e slots, comparing to Asrock H110.

The Asrock h110 + is working out perfectly for me...

Whats the trick getting the "ASUS B250 Mining Expert" working with 19 GPU ?

I get half the cards in and it will not boot, all PCI cables have dedicated Power plus capacitors and kept as short as I can get them
each GPU has a  dedicated TT 480watt 12v GPU PSU

CPU lane limitation?

 But the miners are still looking specifically for the blockchain driver version to support HIGH hash rates on VEGA.

 Perhaps when Cast and Stack-XMR get updated to no longer look for that specific version to get large page support....